Saturday, May 28, 2011

Invisible dudes are inclined to visions of ruling mankindTheir parts disappearingthey start domineeringOut of sight, they go out of their mind

I'm not sure what Nan Grey sees in Vincent Price when The Invisible Man Returns (Joe May, 1940). Image source: Vincentprice.org. The title of this limerick is a play on another film. Who can name that movie?

Friday, May 27, 2011

Actor and horror film star Vincent Price was born on this day in 1911, one hundred years ago. We trust you are enjoying this Vincentennial tribute to the horror icon. Image: From the episode "The Deadly Dolls" on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Consider one more also-ran,and pity the poor one-armed manHe killed Kimble's wife and he runs for his life,from the fire right into the panAfter killing the wife of Richard Kimble, the One-Armed Man (Bill Raisch) had to run one step ahead of The Fugitive.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

As invisible man number two,his visage had vanished from viewIt's kept from the screen,excepting one scene,when Vincent made horror debut

John Sutton, Nan Grey and Vincent Price in The Invisible Man Returns (Joe May, 1940). If there ever was an actor who could create a vivid character though his expressive voice alone it was Price. Price loved radio, lending his mellifluous tones to such shows as Suspense and Mutual Radio Theater, as well as playing The Saint for several years. To listen to these and other radio shows and recordings by Price, go to vincentprice.org.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Nan Grey, John Sutton and some of Vincent Price's clothing in The Invisible Man Returns (Joe May, 1940). Many consider this Price's first horror film. Image source: vincentprice.org; The Horror Incorporated Project. The Vincentennial is an event being held in Saint Louis through May 28.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Her painting and death are mysteriousThey make the detective deliriousIt sucks that she's dead'cause she's stuck in his head His case of the Lauras is serious

Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, Clifton Webb and Gene Tierney in Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944). I'd rank Laura as the best film that Price ever appeared in--with Leave Her to Heaven a close second--though neither is a 'Vincent Price film'. Describing his forties work, critic David Thomson wrote that the actor "...was required to be effete, caddish, insolent, malicious, or weak." He's certainly caddish and weak as Laura's fiancé. Here's an earlier limerick on the detective's obsession with Laura.

Friday, May 20, 2011

Escaping a fry on death row,the fugitive tries to lay lowBut eluding Gerardhas been proving quite hard--like Valjean with Javert long ago

Fugitive Fridays gets literary. The Fugitive's Richard Kimble (David Janssen) and Lieutenant Gerard echo Jean Valjean and Inspector JavertinLes Misérables. Norm Knott and I tossed around quite a few names for this limerick: To the Victor goes the Hugo; In Gendarmes Way; Gendarmey of One; The Boys in Cordon Bleu; Chat and Mousse...

Thursday, May 19, 2011

A man whose ambitions were greatlaid plans that were big and first rateWhy steal something smallwhen you might get it all?James Reavis tried stealing a state

Okay, so it was the 1880s and still a territory. Based on an amazing but true story, James Addison Reavis (Vincent Price) forges records and documents in an elaborate scheme to become The Baron of Arizona (Sam Fuller, 1950).

Monday, May 16, 2011

We weren't joking about the technical difficulties we mentioned last Friday. Since Thursday, limericks have disappeared, then reappeared without comments. Some limericks didn't post when scheduled, others didn't post at all. And apparently the gremlins are still at it. Something very weird is going on around here.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

In her unitard covered in scales, she's cruising for love-hungry malesDisguised as a nurse,the guys she'll coerce,by using her Lee Press-On Nails

Salome Jens hypnotizes men with her fabulous fingernails from the future in Terror From the Year 5000 (Robert J. Gurney Jr, 1958). Cheesy ads for "Lee Press-On Nails" once blanketed TV. If you weren't subjected to them like I was, feel free to substitute "lovely long nails."

Saturday, May 14, 2011

When her future Earth gets off the rails,this mutant and femme fatale bailsShe first steals a face,then searches the placefor useful and non-deformed males

Terror From the Year 5000 (Robert J. Gurney Jr, 1958). Even though she looks sexy in the leotard in the poster, Salome Jens looked pretty hideous as the mutant future woman. Hideous, that is, until she applied a stolen face and disguised herself as a nurse.

Thursday, May 12, 2011

As Barb she had problems with men,who bothered her now and againOne eye on her sweater,some guys tried to pet her--Especially cross-dresser, Glen

Delores Fuller as Barbara and Ed Wood as Glen or Glenda (Ed Wood Jr., 1953). Fuller also appeared in one-time boyfriend Wood's Jail Bait and Bride of the Monster,as well as such films as It Happened One Night and The Blue Gardenia. A songwriter, Fuller wrote many songs for Elvis, and others were recorded by Nat Cole and Peggy Lee.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

It dates from the year fifty-eightAnd man, does this dud ever dateA time machine journeythat died on the gurneySalome Jens' legs though, are great

Terror From the Year 5000 (Robert J. Gurney Jr., 1958). Get it? It died on the Gurney. Above: Jens in a still for Angel Baby (1961); Below: Promo still of Joyce Holden. We posted a limerick on the very same film earlier this year and called it Future Schlock.

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The Vincentennial

Our centennial tribute to Vincent Price began on May 17, 2011, here. This monster marathon was our part in the annual Countdown to Halloween, and it continued to crawl along until it breathed its last on March 17, 2012.

Munden's Bar

Read a comic by Surly Hack for free online. It's a Munden's Bar story called Ladeez Nite, and it was written by comics great John Ostrander. You'll find the story here

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